Saving other countries, but who saves us?

The conflict in Libya has become a topic of debate in America today due to Muammar Gaddafi’s impetuous outlook on his people and the destruction of the Libyan civilization. Accompanied by his malicious regime he showers terror in the hearts of the Libyan race. The U.S. continuously wants to play the role of world police. It’s not okay to always jump in every time there’s a conflict involving other countries turmoil and violent affairs. The U.S. has its own conflicts in our own countries economy and structure. Even though I don’t agree with what’s currently going on in Libya. I do believe there are sufficient times when the United States should get involved. When there massacre of innocent women and children. The unwillingness of the government to protect their own people is ludicrous.

As written in the SYNOPSIS The Responsibility To Protect: Core Principles The responsibility to protect embraces three specific responsibilities: in which the 2nd is where I’m reflecting from “The responsibility to react: to respond to situations of compelling human need with appropriate measures, which may include coercive measures like sanctions and international prosecution, and in extreme cases military intervention.” There are other ways to consider making peace other then having to resort with violent acts. Such as hindering of resources/funds and dealing with tyrants like Gaddafi before it get’s out of hand. The UN tends to wait til the last minute to react to issues such as this. As stated by Noam Chomsky “incidentally, in accord with the will of most Americans, who believe that the US should follow the will of the majority and that the UN, not the US, should take the lead in international crisis.” Meaning the US shouldn’t always be the fi...

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... King Indris’ I on September 1, 1969. From there he goes on to rain terror on his people and other countries for many years. On the second side of the table “somebody” should have stepped in a long time ago instead of letting Gaddafi fester in power for so many pointless years. With so many mega countries the peacemaking process always seems to fall in the lap of the United States in which we eagerly agree. In the case of Libya the right to protect is sufficient it just shouldn’t be in the hands of the US to defend that right all the time without support and contribution from other countries link to the UN’s R2P (Right to Protect).

As I have shown there is too much reckless activity with the US’s decisions for peace in other countries such as Libya, when there’s barley peace of mind for the hard-working American’s paying for war with our own blood sweat and tears.